It’s spit out like peroxide
Resulting in that
Caked-on numbness
Wishing to shove it all
All back inside

But now we have to watch it
Slowly slide down the drain

someone

eventually

Will ask you to turn on the water so that it goes away quicker or they’ll play those songs we all knew so that the camaraderie drowns out the bubbles but you and I

You and I
We stand in front of the sink

Sickened, but affixed
By the residue
Marveling at how
Something once so clean
Could be gargled
And regurgitated
Out into such heinous form

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